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In Case You Missed It… Education and Workforce Committee Chairman Tim Walberg (R-MI) joined Newsmax’s Jon Glasgow to discuss the Supreme Court’s ruling allowing the Trump administration to move forward with rightsizing the Department of Education.


On Republicans returning power to students and states:

“The people in November gave us a mandate to address this nation’s education crisis. That’s what we are doing. … [This country has] spent more money but… put more regulatory burden on our k-12 systems in the states. We’ve taken control away from the states and our test scores continue to go downward… we want to go upward. And I think that’s the President’s desire. And so with Linda McMahon as our secretary he’s told her: Do what you can to get out of the way of quality education, creativity, new ideas that can improve education but have been tested at the local level.”

On removing red tape so students can thrive:

“Michigan gets about 9 percent of its education dollars from the federal government. We get over 90 percent of our bureaucratic, regulatory red tape. All of that has a cost. All of that takes away from time on task for the teacher.

“If we get it right in these three areas: the student, the parent, and the teacher, we will succeed.

“I think that’s what the President, Linda McMahon, myself, and the Education Committee in the House want to see accomplished.”

On rightsizing the Education Department:

“We did it better… before the Education Department was formed and took place in 1980. We’ve been going backwards. I think it’s time we wake up and find a means by which we can applaud the successes that are happening in our states.

“Get out of their way and see students, parents, and teachers succeed.”